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~ the eSPIRE Newsletter ~
May 12, 2024
The Sunday After the Ascension
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Sunday: Diaper Drive!
Diaper and wipe donations needed for Lowcountry Pregnancy Center
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What’s needed:
• Diapers (sizes 4, 5 & 6 especially)
• Wipes
Drop-off options:
• This Sunday, May 12, at church
• May 13-17 at the church office
• Saturday, May 18: bring with you to Lowcountry Pregnancy Center for Saturday Serve!
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Sunday: Deadline to Submit Graduate Information
for May 19 inSPIRE, eSPIRE, and Sunday bulletins
Is someone in your family graduating high school, college, or grad school?
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Senior Recognition Sunday
May 19 during the 10:30 service
We will be recognizing our hardworking high school and college (or graduate school) seniors on Senior Recognition Sunday, May 19, and in that week’s inSPIRE and eSPIRE (mailed and emailed May 15). If someone in your family is graduating this spring or graduated in December, please submit his or her information at the link below!
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ECW Springtime Celebration
for every church woman!
Tuesday, May 14 ~ 5:30 p.m. on the Parish House lawn
Join Every Church Woman for a springtime celebration on the Parish House lawn. Let us know you're coming, and invite all women of the community to join us for fellowship, delicious bites, and an opportunity to learn more about the ways the ECW is involved in our parish!
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May Saturday Serve: Lowcountry Pregnancy Center
Saturday, May 18, 9:00 –11:00 a.m. ~ LPC in North Charleston
Come help us serve our friends and mission partners at Lowcountry Pregnancy Center! The May “Saturday Serve” will begin with a tour of the Center, followed by various opportunities to serve, including very light spring cleaning, knitting or crocheting baby blankets (or booties if you're able––please bring your own supplies), and unloading diapers collected from St. Philip’s diaper drive.
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Shine the Light Campus Tours
Tuesday, May 21 ~ 6:00–7:30 p.m.
Sunday, June 9 ~ 4:00–5:30 p.m.
Join us for a campus tour on May 21 or June 9 to see firsthand the restoration projects already underway and funded by the Shine the Light Capital Campaign. During the tour, we will also stop at the State Street building, which will house our school's first classrooms. Drinks and bites will be served!
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Register for VBS!
June 17–20 ~ current 3K-5th-graders and volunteers (youth and adult)
Join us for a Jungle Journey through the Bible at St. Philip's Vacation Bible School (VBS) 2024! Our Good News Cruise begins in Genesis and ends in Revelation as we discuss why our God deserves all the glory forever (1 Timothy 1:17). Volunteers are also needed!
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Cultivating a New Culture: St. Philip’s Begins Planning for a Classical Christian School | |
In 476 A.D., the great Roman Empire, which had brought peace and security to the world, fell to the Barbarians, marking a turning point in western civilization. The Barbarian invasion was able to succeed because after years of economic volatility, power struggles, religious upheaval, poor leadership, porous borders, gratuitous violence, pandemics, and marked moral decline, Roman society was weak. Do those circumstances seem familiar?
“That is where we are in America today,” said the Rev. Jeffrey S. Miller during the May 5 Rector’s Forum, “and it raises the question: Are we heading in the same direction as Rome?”
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Fellowship and Marksmanship at the Cinco Carnival
After implying multiple times––during Sunday announcements, during the Rector’s Forum, and even during the Cinco Carnival––that he would not be taking a seat under the dunk bucket (“It’s good to be king!” he joked), the Reverend Jeffrey S. Miller did what everyone in attendance at the May 5 Cinco Carnival had hoped he would do: he donned a sombrero, took a seat, and awaited his fate.
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Praising God in Rwanda
by Martha Vetter, World Missions Committee
As we grow in our relationship with Christ, we know that God calls us to humble ourselves, to share our bread with the hungry, to free the oppressed and to provide clothing for those living on the margins of society. While living in Rwanda for almost six years, I took this mandate seriously. I lived on the main street of a town called Ruhengeri, which is situated in the north, along a chain of eight volcanoes. Ruhengeri proper is a small town, but it is surrounded by over a million impoverished people, many of whom live in poorly built mud huts.
Because I lived in town, I became friends with many street boys. They would come into the compound where I lived and help me with various tasks. They watered and weeded the flowers and shrubs in the courtyard, washed my car, and hauled away my trash. (There was no such thing as “garbage collection” back then!) I’d give them something to eat, treat their cuts and scrapes, and give them small items such as toothbrushes and toothpaste, soap, flips flops, and old clothes. Sometimes, I used my flannel boards and felt pieces to share Bible stories with them. That was always a lot of fun!
One boy named Imanashimwe would often lead us in singing a few worship songs. He was quite short, probably as a result of malnutrition, but he had a beautiful smile and was eager to hear the biblical stories I shared. When I returned to live in the USA, I traveled to Rwanda at least once a year and used this as an opportunity to visit my old haunts in Ruhengeri. I usually saw “my boys” and listened intently to hear how they were doing. One year, on one of these visits, I didn’t see Imanashimwe.
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Regular weekly events and services | |
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Midweek Morning Prayer
Wednesdays at 8:00 in the Chapel
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Wednesdays Alive!
come-as-you-are service of midweek Holy Communion followed by supper and C.S. Lewis class
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Tonight's Supper: Creamed Curry Chicken
Next Week's Supper: Meatloaf
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This Sunday's Service and Class Information | | |
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The Rev. Brian K. McGreevy is preaching at our services of Holy Eucharist at 8:15 a.m. and Morning Prayer at 10:30 a.m. Sunday school for children of all ages begins at 9:15 a.m., and the Rector's Forum begins at 9:30 a.m. | |
It Wouldn't Be May 7 Without It | |
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Even though you were excited to hear about Denise Pickford‘s move to the first-floor financial department from her former home in the third-floor music department, no one would blame you if you were simultaneously a tad apprehensive. After all, would her annual birthday serenade be able to go on? Or would Rich Giersch simply wander aimlessly up and down the third floor, strumming and strumming until he eventually gave up?
The answer is yes, it would go on! In fact, this year's original song included lyrics attesting to that very fact: "I'll be back here--same time, same place (same day, too) next year...'til you're not here..." Whatever that's supposed to mean!
If you follow St. Philip's on social media, you already knew Rich managed to serenade the birthday girl (and heard his vaguely threatening lyrics). But if this is news to you, why not take a minute right now to give us a follow so that you, too, can be among the first to hear about schedule changes, special events, and all the latest insect news?
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IMPORTANT DATES
May 12 ~ Diaper Drive for Lowcountry Pregnancy Center
May 14 ~ ECW Springtime Celebration
May 15 ~ Final Wednesdays Alive! service/supper/class
May 16 ~ Pop-Up Chamber Concert (11:00 a.m.)
May 16 ~ Final Rector’s Bible Study
May 18 ~ "Saturday Serve" for Lowcountry Pregnancy Center
May 19 ~ Graduating Senior Recognition Sunday, Final Sunday school, Final Rector's Forum, Final High School Youth Group
May 21 ~ Shine the Light campus tour (6:00 p.m.)
May 22 ~ Adult Confirmation (6:00 p.m.)
May 24~ Final Middle School Youth Group
May 27 ~ Memorial Day (church office closed)
June 9 ~ Shine the Light campus tour (4:00 p.m.)
June 17–20 ~ Vacation Bible School (VBS)
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We pray for the sick: Virginia Barnwell, Elizabeth Bowles, Diane Christensen, Karen Collins, Mary Forbes, Myron Harrington, Dana Heikes III, Marvin Kirkland, Rena Mack, John Macmurphy, Paula McNamara, Eric Panizza, Lou Parker, Barbara Sainsbury, Fran Sanders, Esther Spade, Pete Sperr, and Libby Wright.
We pray for our expectant parents: Sarah and Wyatt Baldwin, Olivia Hipp and Jon Black.
We pray for protection for those serving in the armed forces: Becca Baird, Janie Baird, Henry Clayton, David Daughtridge, Eric Gaines, Andrew Kane, Quin Kane, Horry Kerrison, Frazier Kulze, John Mason, Philip Middleton III, Jackson Miller, Edward Pritchard, Nathaniel Rollings, David Scott, and Asada Williams.
We pray for our home and world missions: Lowcountry Fellowship of Christian Athletes, Hope to Home, Lowcountry Pregnancy Center, Star Gospel Mission, for the medical missions to Honduras, for ministry to victims of genocide and AIDS in Rwanda, for the Persecuted Church, for Anglican Frontier Missions, for Uganda Christian University Partners, for Water Mission and the Global Water Center, and for St. Jean Baptiste, our sister church, and the schools in Haiti.
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Collect for Sunday:
O God, the King of glory, who hast exalted thine only Son Jesus Christ with great triumph unto thy kingdom in heaven: We beseech thee, leave us not comfortless, but send to us thine Holy Ghost to comfort us, and exalt us unto the same place whither our Savior Christ is gone before; who liveth and reigneth with thee, in the unity of the same Holy Ghost, ever one God, world without end. Amen.
Readings for Sunday:
- 1 John 5:6–15
- Psalm 47
- John 17:11–19
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ST. PHILIP'S CHURCH
142 Church Street | Charleston, SC 29401
(843) 722-7734, www.stphilipschurchsc.org
Church Office Hours
8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. Monday through Thursday
8:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. Friday
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